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Other distractions were provided by the Pavilion and the camera obscura. Alternatively, one could hop on one of the fleet of Belle Steamers that plied daily to a number of other coastal destinations.

Note the hotel carriage by the entrance, the various horse-drawn conveyances and also the people on the hotel balcony. The building with the colonnaded frontage was the Masonic Hall.

The boats were built to a high (and expensive) specification, the original 22ft-class later being supplemented by the more affordable and manageable 17ft-class.

Originally a mere sub-branch of Cardiff's Bute Street, the growing stature of the town is evidenced by the bank's gaining of both 'full' status (c1886) and Bute Street's erstwhile manager, Mr H W Rice!

The rest have been replaced by the modern back wall of a stone clad Co-op supermarket. The cottages are clearly in a dilapidated condition in this 1950 view, but their loss is surely to be regretted.

They would not notice the milk churns on the stand by the side of the road (left), as they were a common sight then.

Until the development of the Promenade for tourism purposes early in the 20th century, the area of the tennis courts was occupied by the Bowness Council's sewage settlement tanks.

It is a member of the same family that is commemorated by the Burton Memorial.

The latter was originally named Brunswick Row by the Duke of Gloucester on 16 August 1824.

Now a tree-clad hilltop fort, this is another example of the many forts built by the Iron Age people. To date it has never been excavated.

It was replaced by the Hailsham Club nearer the church in order to make way for the Vicarage Fields shopping precinct, which was started in 1965 and opened in 1968.

Scott also rebuilt the river bridge in 1864, a fine red brick one in a medieval style, seen here from the south by the Thames. We can just see the church spirelet.

A fine car approaches the High Street by the Parliament Building (right), and a dog feels safe enough to trot down the middle of the road.

It was financed by the Duke of Bridgewater and built by James Brindley.

By the end of the 19th century, New Street was both the principal business street in the town and the best for shopping and entertainment.This view is from Paradise Street.

Here we can have a closer look at the famous bridge, with a group of boys fishing by the bandstand (left).

The monument on the hill was erected by the local people in 1836 in memory of their landlord, George Granville Leveson- Gower, Duke of Sutherland.

Parked by the side of Kings Road and opposite the memorial are a gleaming black Rover 14, a Riley 1.5 and an early F-type Vauxhall Victor.

Named after the original landowner, Justin de Cave, South Cave is a village of two halves, separated by the castle, built in 1787.

Moulsham Street has now been cut in two by the building of Parkway. It is a continuation of the High Street, which we see in C73044.

That bridge was joined in the 1960s by the dual carriageway box-girder road bridge and footway alongside.

Until 1880 this area was the butchers' shambles, then replaced by the pump (in the shelter, foreground).

This fine theatre has been used by the BBC as a recording studio since the late 1960s; it is one of comparatively few remaining suburban music halls in Greater London outside the West End.

It and the island are now owned by the Henley Royal Regatta, and the temple has recently been well restored.